what do you mean by “different protocol” — a different consensus mechanism? | by Trenton Van Epps

Polkadot…d did some of the early thinking around Ethereum sharding.) Both are sharded protocols: in Polkadot each shard can run a different protocol, whereas in Ethereum 2.0 every shard runs the same protocol. There are attractions to Polkadot’s heterogeneous design, but in the end, for Ethereum, minimising …
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Jan 17, 2019
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what do you mean by “different protocol” — a different consensus mechanism?
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Written by Trenton Van Epps364 Followers
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Current: Coordinating @ Ethereum Core Dev call. Past: Community @ ETHGlobal. Interested in how chain culture manifests.
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